New Google Sheets: faster, more powerful, and works offline
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New Google Sheets: faster, more powerful, and works offline
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Re: New Google Sheets: faster, more powerful, and works offline
#2Been hoping for this for a long time. Happy it's here.
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#3Why would anyone use Excel now?
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#4It's still proprietary software. Why would I use this instead of Libreoffice?
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#5Offline is awesome; obviously because it means it works anywhere, but also I presume this means that all formula evaluation is now done locally, i.e. "instantly". I am pretty sure that before the server was involved in (some?) recalculation, which caused sluggishness.
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#6It's still proprietary software. Why would I use this instead of Libreoffice?
Because web? Can I open my LibreOffice documents from a new machine without even installing an app?
Obviously there are reasons to use LibreOffice, like you said. But don't try to pretend there's no reason to use Google's office suite over LibreOffice.
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#7Spreadsheets have pretty much been the same for the past 10 years so it's good to finally see some movement in this area. For a time being, I was sure that Google gave up on spreadsheets.
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#8So, is this a move against Microsoft?
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#9"works offline" ... in Chrome only!
Re: New Google Sheets: faster, more powerful, and works offline
#10Why would anyone use Excel now?
Maybe because not everyone wants their spreadsheet with sensitive data on Google's servers. Also, I seriously doubt this thing is up to feature parity with Excel.